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Stanley Feldman gave up his biochemistry thesis on the metabolism of the woodlouse to study medicine in 1950. Qualified (hons) Westminster Medical School 1955. He trained as an anaesthetist at Westminster Hospital, Research Fellow at University Washington USA 1957–58. Senior Lecturer Postgraduate Medical School, 1962. Adviser in Post Studies Faculty Anaesthetist 1965–70. Visiting Professor Stanford University USA 1967–68. Higginbotham Lecturer Dallas, Frederickson Orator Emory. Member Senate University London, Chair of Anaesthesia University London at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical Schools (later Imperial College School Medicine). Research adviser Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital 1994–97. Examiner in physiology for Faculty Anaesthetists, College of Surgeons and Dental Faculty.

Author/Editor of 12 textbooks on anaesthesia, including Scientific Foundations of Anaesthesia, Mechanism of Action of Drugs and Drugs in Anaesthesia. Editor Journal Anaesthetic Pharmacology Review. Contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers on molecular mechanisms of drug action and post-graduate education. His most recent publication is Poison Arrows (Metro Publishing, 2005).

The author of several textbooks, Vincent Marks went from Tottenham County School on a State Scholarship in 1948 to read medicine at Oxford. Since 1970, he has been Professor, now Emeritus, of Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Surrey in Guildford. Known internationally for his research on hypoglycaemia and diabetes, he has appeared as an expert witness in some of the world’s most famous trials such as those of Claus von Bulow in America, Beverley Allitt in England and Colin Bouwer in New Zealand. His work on intestinal hormones led him to designate GIP the obesity hormone and his description of muesli-belt nutrition established him as one of the country’s best-known nutritionists. A former president of the Association of Clinical Biochemists and erstwhile vice president of the Royal College of Pathologists, Vincent was a founder member of HealthWatch. He is now semi-retired and lives in Haslemere with his wife Averil. Both their children are lawyers.